Yes, the elderly Country Club MoveOn members probably do want to appear “young and relevant.”
It’s bizarre, though, because I’ve even watched the transformation of a family member who is nearly 90 - and is extremely well-off, to put it mildly - into somebody who sounds like she should be in the Stalinist Workers’ Brigade or a member of the KGB. She lives in a very rarified environment, is a member of the richest Episcopal church in town, dines at the Yacht Club all the time, but spouts nonsense that could have been written by Michael Moore. Interestingly enough, one of the things that all of these ladies seem to hate (despite the fact that they all seem to go to some main-line Protestant church) is the Christianity of people like Bush and Palin. Oh well, maybe they’re just possessed...
Seems to me these Old Libs are trying to be accepted by their long time Lib friends and are feeling guilty for their lives of luxury and privilege.